Monday 20 May 2019 16:39, UK
Wayne Riley hails Brooks Koepka's PGA Championship victory and looks at whether he can get to Tiger Woods' major total.
Bethpage Black may as well have been called Brooks Koepka Country Club until Sunday, as the rest of the field just couldn't live with him!
The course is the kind of venue that played right into Koepka's hands, given how strong he is, as he could pound it miles off the tee and was also able to generate the power to gouge out onto the greens when he found the rough.
Koepka knows how good he is and walks around the golf course in a nonchalant manner like nothing seems to phase him. Sometimes that can come across as being a little cocky, but why wouldn't you be having a game like that?!
He will be happy to have won, but he will still reflect and think that he could have done better because that is what he always wants to do.
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You never rest on your laurels in any sport and you feel like you can always improve, so the only way he was going to be happy was by lifting the Wanamaker Trophy. When you try and get around a monster, the monster prevails, and the monster this week is Brooks Koepka.
There's no doubt that Koepka's now hunting down Tiger Woods' record and thinks like he can go on to get 15 majors himself. He feels as though he can win a couple of majors a year and look how well it's going so far.
He is the first player in history to be a back-to-back champion at both the US Open and PGA Championship, so who is going to doubt the way how his mind thinks!
The players fear Koepka on a big golf course like Bethpage Black but things will be different over the next two majors, where the courses will be a little more dinky and fiery to what we saw this week.
Pebble Beach for the US Open next month will offer a totally different test. Graeme McDowell won the last time the tournament was there and he isn't a long hitter, which brings so many more players into the equation.
Koepka's fourth major victory is remarkable when you think he has only won a couple of tournaments outside of those events, where Dustin Johnson has won 20 PGA Tour events but only one major.
Would you rather have Johnson's 20 wins or Koepka's four major title? I know I would rather have Koepka's record!
